X Stands, scourge or savior?
Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 20:21
Hello forum!
{Warning, the following thread is for entertainment purposes only.
Comments contained within are not necessarily shared by the entire forum staff.
No keyboard stands were harmed in the making of this thread.
Any resemblance to stands, either living or dead, is purely coincidental}
I'll share a moderation team inside joke:
Here's another random "roll eyes" thought:
Riddle me this Batman:
"What costs more to ship, than to actually manufacture?"
Oops, wrong Riddler....
{please note: Matthew Lesko is not the real Riddler. Of course, neither was Jim Carrey}
The real Riddler, aka Frank Gorshin
"X Stands" (Scourge, or Savior?)
No, it's not another bad X-Men sequel, there's way too many of those already.
I'm talking about those ironing board stands that seemed to pop up almost over night in the mid eighties, and have been omnipresent ever since.
If I had a shiny nickle for every X stand that I've bought over the years, well I'd have a whole bunch of shiny nickles.
These are dreadful stands that wobble side to side at the pivot point proportionate to the weight of the keyboard that it supports.
I remember playing a Roland A-90 on one that wobbled so bad that we had to write a time signature change halfway through every song to keep it from flying off the stand and injuring someone in the audience....
OK, I'm kind of exaggerating there.... there wasn't really an audience 
X Stands aren't all bad. They're way better than a pair of cleverly arranged bar stools, and can be "combined into some pretty interesting combinations" {Mojo Jojo redundancy reference}.
This combination example graciously shared by simonbeck:
Thankfully 2012 has brought us some creative alternatives (although I'd much prefer the jetpack that I was promised as a child. When is that coming?)
Enough of my ramblings.
What are your thoughts?
Cheers, Hanon
btw:
and that's how we invented the telegraph....
{Warning, the following thread is for entertainment purposes only.
Comments contained within are not necessarily shared by the entire forum staff.
No keyboard stands were harmed in the making of this thread.
Any resemblance to stands, either living or dead, is purely coincidental}
I'll share a moderation team inside joke:
Yes we track thoseTheModerationTeam wrote:How can you tell when Hanon has posted another topic?
Easy! There's a huge spike in the stats for the rolling eyes emoticon usage throughout the forums....
Here's another random "roll eyes" thought:
Riddle me this Batman:
"What costs more to ship, than to actually manufacture?"
Oops, wrong Riddler....
{please note: Matthew Lesko is not the real Riddler. Of course, neither was Jim Carrey}
The real Riddler, aka Frank Gorshin
"X Stands" (Scourge, or Savior?)
No, it's not another bad X-Men sequel, there's way too many of those already.
I'm talking about those ironing board stands that seemed to pop up almost over night in the mid eighties, and have been omnipresent ever since.
If I had a shiny nickle for every X stand that I've bought over the years, well I'd have a whole bunch of shiny nickles.
These are dreadful stands that wobble side to side at the pivot point proportionate to the weight of the keyboard that it supports.
I remember playing a Roland A-90 on one that wobbled so bad that we had to write a time signature change halfway through every song to keep it from flying off the stand and injuring someone in the audience....
OK, I'm kind of exaggerating there.... there wasn't really an audience
X Stands aren't all bad. They're way better than a pair of cleverly arranged bar stools, and can be "combined into some pretty interesting combinations" {Mojo Jojo redundancy reference}.
This combination example graciously shared by simonbeck:
- Rockin_Arrangement.JPG (36.36 KiB) Viewed 6209 times
Enough of my ramblings.
What are your thoughts?
Cheers, Hanon
btw:
and that's how we invented the telegraph....
Scary. Now that you mention it, I never had a keyboard stand, unit I bought
Mike